Healthwatch Cornwall is your local health and social care champion. We use your feedback to better understand the challenges facing the NHS and other care providers and we make sure your experiences improve health and care for everyone – locally and nationally. We’re entirely independent and impartial, and anything you share with us is confidential.
Healthwatch Cornwall are working with NHS England and Improvement to understand more about carers experiences when the person they care for is discharged from hospital. The work aims to influence future policy and practice by finding out what is important to carers and those they care for when leaving hospital. This will help make improvements to how carers are identified, recognised and supported
Thank you for your interest in participating in this work. We are keen to hear about recent experiences of when the person you care for was admitted to and discharged from hospital, and the support provided them once home.
Whether you identify as a carer, or are caring for a family member or friend in need of support, we are specifically looking to speak with you if all of the following apply:
- you are an unpaid carer (whether in receipt of carers allowance or not)
- the person you cared for was discharged from hospital in the last six months
- the person you cared for required support at home from any health services, social care services or voluntary sector services following discharge from hospital
You would need to be available to take part in a conversation with a Healthwatch Cornwall representative between 15th November and mid January 2022.
There are no right or wrong answers to any of our interview questions, we are simply interested in your own experiences and observations from your recent experience. Participation in this work is voluntary. The conversation should take between 30 minutes and one hour depending on how much information you would like to share with us. With your permission, we would like to audio record the interview because we don’t want to miss any of your comments.
All responses will be kept confidential. This means that your interview responses will only be shared with people involved in this research and we will ensure that any information we include in our report does not identify you as the respondent. You may decline to answer any question, stop the interview or withdraw at any time and for any reason.
If you are interested in getting involved, please contact Healthwatch Cornwall to speak with one of our colleagues on:
Email: [email protected] Tel: 01872 273501
Thank you once again for your interest in this work, on behalf of the team at Healthwatch Cornwall.